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JPOP, the plants look absolutely fabulous, so healthy and strong. A wee bit jealous here in NY, but extremely happy yours are doing so nicely.
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Nice pictures neighbor! Hope they produce many tomatoes for you. I have about 12 volunteer tomato plants that are doing fine...at the moment. Have cucumbers, 4 types of Romaine lettuce and spinach growing right now. Hope the seeds I sent will do good for you as well.
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What gorgeous healthy plants!
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JPop those are just beautiful. Are you using anything to stimulate the pollination?
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I don't know how I missed your thread but your plants are beautiful and setting lots of fruit. They grew huge in such a short time. Is this the first time growing in Florida? If so, as long as the fruit is set, hot temperatures won't matter. Whatever you are doing, keep doing it.
I also grow around my pool in Earthboxes and elevated root pouches and have always had problems with staking when the plants get too large (> 6'). It looks like you are supporting with just one stake. Is that the case? it looks like it is working really well even with the large plants. Is your area wind protected? I get days of wind weekly. --- I only have a few planted out so far, and although it doesn't seem buggy at all, I can't believe how many bugs are on the yellow traps even after one night. |
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Yes, Neptunes Harvest Hydrolized Fish Fertilizer. 1 TBS per Gallon once per week. Can see the difference 1 to 2 days after application, can not believe how good this stuff is. Going to try their tomato formula next. Was contemplating the texas tomato food but do not want to fix what is not broken.
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Ironically enough I have to contribute the rapid plant growth to a large error made by myself during pot up. I had a bag of calcium nitrate next to the other amendments (i.e. mycos, tomato tone, lime, etc.) and accidentally put the recommended 1 lb. of calcium nitrate instead of the lime. I was not going to say anything until I let it grow through as I was tempted to throw out the potting mix and start over but figured the financial mistake would turn into an experiment whether good or bad. The black pots had no calcium nitrate added and as you can see from the photos. Even w/ the earthboxes packed w/ plants (2-3)compared to the individual pots w/ individual plants, the earthboxes w/ the calcium nitrate exploded in growth and maturity in comparison. Obviously the increased nitrogen has not hurt flowering or fruit production likely because it is in nitrate form. So all else being equal, this seems to be the contributing factor. Time will still tell. As far as stakes. Each plant has 1 stake, but I use twine to tie them to each stake on each large stem and continue as the plants grow. I get plenty of wind in my backyard and lost a portion of one of my big beef plant due to not tying it and left unsupported. Had a tornado and gusts up to 40 mph last week and the plants went unscathed. Lastly, the yellow fly traps have been invaluable and have gone through no less than 30 so far due to full coverage w/ no tackiness left. |
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That's what I've always done-cedar stakes and twine. Except that I use avocado color yarn because it blends with the leaf color and looks pretty.
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